Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , as I have been given more recognition and opportunity to draw to my strengths under your editorship , I would like to express my appreciation and thanks for giving me a ‘ go ’ . |
| 2 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 3 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 4 | ‘ Not half as eager , Your Grace , as I have been to see you ! |
| 5 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 6 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 7 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 8 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 9 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 10 | The present conjuncture is uniquely dreadful because , as I have been predicting emphatically for at least two years , we now have , all at the same time , unemployment rising towards three million , falling output and investment , and a balance of payments that is still in substantial deficit . |
| 11 | And because all these things will begin to happen … exactly as I have been told they will happen … more and more rapidly … powerfully … and completely … |
| 12 | Bramber … hardly deserves the name of a town , having not above fifteen or sixteen families in it , and of them not many above asking you an alms as you ride by ; the chiefest house in the town is a tavern , and hear , as I have been told the vintner , or ale-house keeper , rather , for he hardly deserved the name of a vintner , boasted , that upon an election , just then over , he had made £300 , of one pipe of a canary . |
| 13 | WILLIAMS : I am sorry I have incurred your displeasure and the more as I have been told by Lady Jones that you had a more honourable view than at first was apprehended . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 15 | Companies with as strong a balance sheet as yours have been known to seek acquisitions er , in the midst of a very deep recession . |
| 16 | It is perfectly in order to ask for a copy of the annual report , the balance sheet and any other promotional material as soon as you have been called for interview , or even beforehand . |
| 17 | As you have been reading these thoughts , have you come to the decision that you need to be reconciled , to members of your family ? |
| 18 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 19 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you really expect to stay healthy , living rough as you have been doing , not eating enough , I expect — ’ |
| 21 | As you have been told , he kept a herd of cows , and also a bull . |
| 22 | As you have been informed , my council makes one offer only to homeless persons . |
| 23 | It is also right that , as we have been urging , the asylum claims should be examined more expeditiously . |
| 24 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 25 | Great chunks of it may require changes in Company policy and I assume that those are being investigated in the same way as we have been asked to comment . |
| 26 | The former , as we have been seeing , are ideas of material things , such as sheep , or of kinds of material stuff , such as gold . |
| 27 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 28 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 29 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 30 | If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 . |